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Re: spf support in QuickDNS?

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Monday, August 16, 2004
Time: 5:21:19 pm

It's the same wizard at both places, or so it appears.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

At 1:40 PM -0500 8/16/04, John Dobbin wrote:
>Of course there is the wizard at the officail spf site as well -
>http://spf.pobox.com
>
>John Dobbin
>Pen Publishing Interactive - http://www.penpublishing.com
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com
>> [mailto:quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com] On Behalf Of Simon Wright
>> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:31 PM
>> To: QuickDNS Talk
>> Subject: Re: spf support in QuickDNS?
>>
>> Thanks, Joe. After poking around I also found the wizard here...
>>
>> http://www.libspf2.org/wizard/
>>
>> to be quite useful.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> On Aug 16, 2004, at 1:51 PM, Joe D'Andrea wrote:
>>
>> > At 1:20 PM -0400 8/16/04, Simon Wright wrote:
>> >> Chris, valuable information, thanks.
>> >>
>> >> As a final datum, can you post the actual contents of your data
>> >> record as shown in QuickDNS Manager? I'm a bit confused by
>> the "SPF
>> >> version" and the "-all" bits. What does a record or
>> records actually
>> >> look like?
>> >
>> > Here's ours for west21.com. I'm no SPF expert, so I built
>> it using the
>> > wizard at pobox.com
>> >
>> > west21.com TXT v=spf1 ip4:64.21.154.0/24 ip4:66.246.161.0/25 a mx
>> > -all
>> >
>> > If I understand it correctly, this is my layman's
>> descriptions of the
>> > code.
>> >
>> > the v-spf1 says that this is an SPF description.
>> >
>> > ipv4:64.21.154.0/24 says that mail from west21.com can come
>> from any
>> > machine in the range of 64.21.154.1 to 64.21.154.255 which
>> is one of
>> > our netblocks.
>> >
>> > Likewise for ip4:66.246.161.0/25, our other netblock
>> >
>> > the "a" means mail can come from the IP address attached to the "a"
>> > record for "west21.com"
>> >
>> > and it can come from the IP address of any of our MX records
>> >
>> > by default all those declarations are "accept"
>> >
>> > the -all means "deny" all others
>> >
>> > ~joe
>> >
>>
>>
>>




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